JOURNALISTIC INSTINCTS: Galina Timchenko has decamped to Latvia and launched a new site to keep the flame of Russian independent media alive.
RIGA: A year after she was fired as editor of one of Russia's most popular news websites for falling foul of the authorities, Galina Timchenko has decamped to Latvia and launched a new site to keep the flame of Russian independent media alive.
"Meduza", published since last October out of a newsroom in Latvia's capital Riga, offers an alternative to Russia's stridently nationalist state-controlled media and the remaining independent news sources that, Timchenko says, are deferential to the authorities out of fear.
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